War for the Overworld

War for the Overworld

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Looking for new realms to subjugate? Peruse the cavernous depths of the Workshop to find the next map upon which to sate your bloodlust or create your own and share via the in-game editor!
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hinoron1 14 Dec, 2023 @ 3:54pm
Modders & Devs? Custom tilesets: Possible?
I finally poked my head in here to the Steam workshop to see what the community has come up with to refresh the game for me! I see tons of custom maps, whole campaigns, emulations of the classic DK1&2. Great stuff, but less "custom" than I see in most games' mod community.

WftO already has the mechanics to swap out different custom tilesets for dungeon designs, worker minions, etc, if you complete the campaigns or achievements that unlock them. I'm frankly surprised not to see custom theme tilesets at least. The Devs gave us a handful of neat themes; where's the community's fresh and strange ideas?

While it's a bit cheap, I would not have been surprised to find a cheat mod here that unlocks all the pre-programmed alternate tile themes the game has... Though I'm enough of a grownup I'd probably not choose to take that shortcut myself, not seeing that indicates to me there might be some hard wall in the way of tileset modding?

What motivates the question? To be perfectly honest, every time I find myself rereading "Dungeon Keeper Ami" (Y'all either know what that is, or you don't. :P ) the urge to reinstall WftO again reawakens, and I find myself wishing I could choose a white & blue tileset with the occasional Mercury symbol on the walls. Just to be silly... and what else are mods for if not that?